Falling Towards the Sky
Summary: I am taking my time to experiment with the sense of sky in modern postural yoga. Halfway through this experiment, I can say that several other philosophical exercises contributed to enriching my felt-worldview with a sense of open sky above me, and so they helped make the yoga exercise (which I find pretty challenging) easier. A little while ago, over the span of a month, I experimented with modern postural yoga, in order to feel the insights it can deliver. The result of that experiment was that I felt only half of what I was trying to feel. Indeed, these insights can be split into two categories: the “sense of earth” and the “sense of sky”, and I only accessed the first. The sense of earth means feeling grounded, bound by gravity, secure. I managed to feel that one and it was quite nice. On the other hand, the sense of sky is whatever feeling of openness comes to challenge/complete this sense of earth. I think of it this way: if you feel secure enou...